After students have participated in a Discussion, the instructor can use the AI Discussion Summary tool to review comments within a Discussion for a certain theme. For example, if your students are responding to a discussion about the Battle of Gettysburg, you can ask the Discussion Summary generator to summarize how Pickett’s Charge is being discussed.
Only available to Teachers
Not intended to assist with grading but with helping the instructor get impressions and insight into what is being talked about from the prompt and if some things are being missed. In that, it could be an invaluable tool for identifying areas that students may be trying to bypass due to unfamiliarity.
Users are limited to 25 Discussions Summary generations per day. That could be 25 within the same Discussion, separate discussions, or separate courses.
You can choose to get a general summary or a focused one (such as the example above of Pickett’s charge).
You will see the tool at the bottom of your Discussion Prompt (in line with the Reply button) select the Open Summary box to open the tool and then you can select a focus (optional) to direct the AI for what to look for:
These tools operate separately from each other and separately within each course. This means that instructors can decide to activate one or the other without activating them both and they can make that choice independently for each course they teach.
Since these tools are disabled by default, to enable them the instructor will need to do the following process for each tool they wish to Enable. They can also choose to disable them at any time by following this process again but choosing the Disable option.
Go to the course.
Click on Settings.
Click on Feature Options:
Change the state between Enabled and Disabled (depending on your preference) for the "Discussion Summary" tool you want to use or not use:
There is no need to Save your changes. Clicking on Home should refresh your page so that you can see the change to your course.
The AI Translate tool within Canvas will allow students and faculty to translate Canvas Discussions and Announcements into 10 supported languages (more will be coming soon). For Discussions, it will translate both the initial prompt as well as all replies.
Note: Once this feature is activated in Canvas it will be disabled in all courses by default. Instructors will have to enable it if they wish their students to use it. It will not be automatically turned on for any course.
Not yet available but expected soon.
After it is available, the instructor will be able to make a decision to enable it for each course they teach. If enabled, it will be available for Students and Teacher users in that course.
Current languages: Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Swedish (with more coming).
There is no way to limit which languages are available. (For example, a German course could not remove German or English from the languages list. For language-learning courses, the recommendation would be to keep the tool Disabled.
The way that this will look in Canvas is that there will be an Open Translate button above the Discussion or Announcement:
Clicking that will open the Language menu:
Once it is translated the original text will appear at the top and the translation will be below it:
This tool operates separately other Canvas AI tools and separately within each course. This means that instructors can decide to activate one or the other without activating them both and they can make that choice independently for each course they teach.
Since these tools are disabled by default, to enable them the instructor will need to do the following process for each tool they wish to Enable. They can also choose to disable them at any time by following this process again but choosing the Disable option.
Go to the course.
Click on Settings.
Click on Feature Options:
Change the state between Enabled and Disabled (depending on your preference) for the "Course AI Translation" tool you want to use or not use:
There is no need to Save your changes. Clicking on Home should refresh your page so that you can see the change to your course.
Khanmigo Teacher Tools reflects a new partnership between Khan Academy and Canvas. The Teacher Tools provide assistance for faculty in lesson planning and other time-consuming tasks using Khan Academy's AI tool, Khanmigo.
The Khanmigo Teacher Tools are now active for teachers to use within Canvas. See the section below about enabling Khanmigo for your course.
While the tools will help instructors create content for their courses, please note that nothing will automatically be added to your course when you use Khanmigo. For the most part, anything that Khanmigo helps create (like discussion ideas using their Discussion Prompts tool) will have to be copied and then pasted into the respective Canvas tool (Discussions, for the example above) to share with students. For assistance with this, reach out to Blake Ide.
All faculty are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure they comply with FERPA in all matters, especially when using online tools (including AI). If you have any questions about FERPA compliance, please reach out to Marian University's FERPA resource Jennifer Schwartz.
Faculty should also be thorough in reviewing any content created by AI. It may not always be accurate or equitable in what it creates. It is the instructor's responsibility that AI-created content is being used appropriately within their course.
There are two steps to begin using Khanmigo. First, you will need to enable it in your Canvas course (if it is not already enabled). Second, you will need to log into an existing or create a new Khan Academy account.
Khanmigo Teacher Tools will have to be enabled in any course you want to use see them in. Technically, there is nothing tying what is created in Khanmigo Teacher Tools with any particular Canvas course. This means that you could use the link in one of your courses to create content for any of your courses.
Note: Enabling KTT does not enable them to be seen by students. They are enabled only for Teacher use only.
After you check out the welcome and highlights video. You can begin using Khanmigo Teacher Tools after you login with an existing or new Khan Academy account. Note: This account is not affiliated with Marian. You will need to use your own account information (username or email and password). You can sign up with your Marian email address but just know that the password will not (and should not) be the same as your Marian password.
See the videos below for summaries of the tools found in Khanmigo Teacher Tools. They are categorized as tools to help instructors Plan, Create, Differentiate, Support, and Learn.
Video overview
Video note: Class Snapshot and Recommended Assignments (shown in the video) are not included with Khanmigo in Canvas.
Video Overview of Rubric Generator
